赞美的祷告

大卫的诗。

27 耶和华是我的光,我的拯救,
我还怕谁?
耶和华是我的堡垒,
我还怕谁?
当恶人来吞吃我,
仇敌来攻击我时,
必失足跌倒。
虽然大军围攻我,
我心中却一无所惧;
虽然战争来临,我仍满怀信心。
我曾向耶和华求一件事,
我还要求,就是能一生住在祂的殿中,
瞻仰祂的荣美,寻求祂的旨意。
危难之时,祂保护我,
把我藏在祂的圣幕里,
高高地安置在磐石上。
我要昂首面对四围的敌人,
我要在祂的圣幕里欢呼献祭,
歌颂赞美祂。

耶和华啊,求你垂听我的呼求,
求你恩待我,应允我。
你说:“来寻求我!”
我心中响应:
“耶和华啊,我要寻求你。”
别掩面不理我,
别愤然拒绝你的仆人,
你一向是我的帮助。
拯救我的上帝啊,
别离开我,别撇弃我。
10 纵使父母离弃我,
耶和华也必收留我。
11 耶和华啊,
求你指教我行你的道,
引导我走正路,远离仇敌。
12 求你不要让仇敌抓到我,
遂其所愿,
因为他们诬告我,恐吓我。

13 我深信今世必能看见耶和华的美善。
14 要等候耶和华,
要坚定不移地等候耶和华。

祈求上帝帮助

大卫的诗。

28 耶和华啊,我呼求你;
我的磐石啊,别不理我。
你若默然不语,
我必绝望而死。
我向你呼求,
向你的至圣所举手祷告时,
求你垂听。
求你不要把我与奸恶人一同责罚,
他们对邻居口蜜腹剑。
求你使他们罪有应得,
按他们的恶行,
按他们手上的罪恶报应他们。
他们既然毫不在意耶和华的作为和祂的创造,
祂必永远毁灭他们。

耶和华当受称颂!
因为祂听了我的恳求。
祂是我的力量,我的盾牌,
我信靠祂,就得帮助。
我的心欢喜雀跃,
我要歌唱赞美祂。
耶和华是祂子民的力量,
是祂膏立者得救的堡垒。
耶和华啊,
求你拯救你的子民,
赐福给你拣选的人,
如牧人般照顾他们,
永远扶持他们。

上帝威严的声音

大卫的诗。

29 上帝的众子啊,
要赞美耶和华,
赞美祂的荣耀和能力,
要赞美祂荣耀的名,
穿上圣洁的衣服敬拜祂。
耶和华的声音回荡在海上,
荣耀的上帝打雷,
在洪涛之上打雷。
耶和华的声音充满能力;
耶和华的声音充满威严。
耶和华的声音震断香柏树,
耶和华劈碎黎巴嫩的香柏树,
使黎巴嫩山跳跃如小牛,
西连山跳跃如野牛。
耶和华的声音携闪电而来,
震动旷野,
震动加低斯的旷野。
耶和华的声音击倒橡树[a]
使树木凋零。
众人在祂殿中高呼:
“荣耀归于耶和华!”
10 耶和华坐在洪涛之上,
耶和华永远坐着为王。
11 耶和华赐力量给自己的子民,
赐给他们平安的福乐。

感恩的祷告

大卫的诗,作献殿之歌。

30 耶和华啊,我要赞美你,
因为你救我脱离危难,
不让我的仇敌幸灾乐祸。
我的上帝耶和华啊,
我呼求你,你就医治了我。
耶和华啊,你从阴间把我救出,
没有让我落入坟墓。
耶和华忠心的子民啊,
你们要歌颂祂,
赞美祂的圣名。
因为祂的怒气瞬间消逝,
祂的恩惠却持续一生。
我们虽然整夜哭泣,
早晨必定欢呼。
我在顺境中曾说:
“我永不动摇。”
耶和华啊,
你向我施恩,我便稳固如山;
你掩面不理我,我就惊慌失措。
耶和华啊,我向你呼求,
恳求你怜悯,说:
“耶和华啊,
我被毁灭、落入坟墓有何益处?
我归于尘土,还能赞美你、
宣扬你的信实吗?
10 耶和华啊,求你垂听我的呼求,怜悯我!
耶和华啊,求你帮助我!”
11 你把我的哀哭变成了舞步,
为我脱下悲伤的麻衣,
披上喜乐的外袍,
12 好叫我从心底歌颂你,
不致默然无声。
我的上帝耶和华啊,
我要永远向你感恩!

信靠上帝的祷告

大卫的诗,交给乐长。

31 耶和华啊,我寻求你的庇护,
求你让我永不蒙羞;
你是公义的,求你拯救我。
求你侧耳听我的呼求,
快来救我,作我坚固的避难所,
作拯救我的堡垒。
你是我的磐石,我的堡垒,
求你为了自己的名而引导我,带领我。
你是我的避难所,
求你救我脱离人们为我设下的陷阱。
我将灵魂交托给你。
信实的上帝耶和华啊,
你必救赎我。
我憎恨拜假神的人,
我信靠耶和华。
你已经看见我的困苦,
知道我心中的愁烦,
你的恩慈使我欢喜快乐。
你没有将我交给仇敌,
而是领我到宽阔之地。
耶和华啊,我落在苦难之中,
求你怜悯我,
我双眼哭肿,身心疲惫。
10 我的生命被愁苦吞噬,
岁月被哀伤耗尽,
力量因罪恶而消逝,
我成了枯骨一堆。
11 仇敌羞辱我,
邻居厌弃我,
朋友害怕我,
路人纷纷躲避我。
12 我就像已死之人,被人遗忘;
又像破碎的陶器,被人丢弃。
13 我听见许多人毁谤我,
惊恐笼罩着我。
他们图谋不轨,
谋害我的性命。

14 然而,耶和华啊,
我依然信靠你;
我说:“你是我的上帝。”
15 我的时日都掌握在你手中,
求你救我脱离仇敌和追逼我的人。
16 求你笑颜垂顾仆人,
施慈爱拯救我。
17 耶和华啊,我曾向你呼求,
求你不要叫我蒙羞。
求你使恶人蒙羞,
寂然无声地躺在阴间。
18 愿你堵住撒谎之人的口,
他们骄傲自大,
狂妄地攻击义人。
19 你的恩惠何其大——为敬畏你的人而预备,
在世人面前赐给投靠你的人。
20 你把他们藏在你那里,
使他们得到庇护,
免遭世人暗算。
你使他们在你的居所安然无恙,
免受恶言恶语的攻击。
21 耶和华当受称颂!
因为我被困城中时,
祂以奇妙的爱待我。
22 我曾惊恐地说:
“你丢弃了我!”
其实你听了我的呼求。
23 耶和华忠心的子民啊,
你们要爱祂。
祂保护忠心的人,
严惩骄傲的人。
24 凡仰望耶和华的人啊,
要刚强壮胆!

认罪与赦免

大卫的诗。

32 过犯得赦免、罪恶被饶恕的人有福了!
心里没有诡诈、
不被耶和华算为有罪的人有福了!
我默然不语、拒绝认罪的时候,
就因整日哀叹而身心疲惫。
你昼夜管教我,
我的精力耗尽,
如水在盛夏枯竭。(细拉)

我向你承认自己的罪,
不再隐瞒自己的恶。
我说:“我要向耶和华认罪。”
你就赦免了我。(细拉)

因此,趁着还能寻求你的时候,
凡敬虔的人都当向你祷告;
洪水泛滥时,就没有机会了。
你是我的藏身之所,
你保护我免遭危难,
用得胜的凯歌四面环绕我。(细拉)

耶和华说:“我要教导你,
引领你走正路;
我要劝导你,看顾你。
不要像无知的骡马,
不用嚼环辔头就不驯服。”

10 恶人必多遭祸患,
耶和华的慈爱必环绕信靠祂的人。
11 义人啊,
你们要靠耶和华欢喜快乐;
心地正直的人啊,
你们都要欢呼。

Footnotes

  1. 29:9 击倒橡树”或译“使母鹿生产”。

27 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.

Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

28 Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

29 Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength.

Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.

The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire.

The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

10 The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.

11 The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

30 I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.

11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

31 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

14 But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

17 Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the Lord: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

32 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.